google-indexing-api

Use the Google Indexing API to submit URLs for indexing to Google Search.

This tool lets you provide a sitemap and send URLs that match any regexes you provide for indexing using the Google Indexing API.

To use this project, first clone this repository and install the required dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/capjamesg/google-indexing-api
cd google-indexing-api/
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Then, update the following values in app.py:

SITEMAP = "https://example.com/sitemap.xml" # the sitemap to crawl
MATCHING_REGEXES = [r"/posts/"] # the regexes of paths you want to crawl
REQUEST_TYPE = "URL_UPDATED" # request type: either URL_UPDATED or URL_DELETED

Then, create a Service Account in Google Cloud. Grant access to the Google Indexing API to the Service Account.

Issue OAuth credentials for your Service Account and save them to a file called secret.json that is in the same folder as the app.py file.

Next, invite the email for your service account to your Google Search Console instance.

Now, you can run the script to request indexing of URLs:

python3 app.py

At the time of writing this script, Google allows 200 requests per day.

License

This project is licensed under an MIT license.